“Naxalites [Maoists] hacked a 36-year-old man to death in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, suspecting him of being a police informer,” an official said on Wednesday (September 17, 2025).
“Dashru Ram Oyam was murdered on the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday (September 16 and 17, 2025) in Benchram village under Jangla police station limits,” the police official said.
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“A group of Naxalites [Maoists] barged into his house and dragged him outside. They then killed him with axes after accusing him of being a police informer,” he said.
After being alerted about the murder in the morning, a police team was sent to the spot and Oyam’s body was shifted to a hospital for the post-mortem, he said. “A search operation has been launched in the area to track down the killers,” he added.
